Anti-graft watchdog demands political financing laws


Ravin Palanisamy

Political economist Edmund Gomez says is no law governing foundations, or disclosure about the sponsors of these foundations and how funds are channelled by them to the parties or politicians. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 12, 2021.

POLITICAL financing laws are needed to prevent politicians from using foundations – better known as ‘yayasan’ – to enrich themselves, their families and political parties, said anti-graft watchdog Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4).

In launching its report Foundation and Donations: Political Financing, Corruption, and the Pursuit of Power, political economist and member of C4’s board of directors, Edmund Gomez, said that foundations were meant to fund social and community programmes.


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